IBM and NEC Team Up to Enable Industry Innovators Tervela and Selerity to Transform their Networks with OpenFlow January 24, 2012 Leading innovators are adopting OpenFlow-based networking to transform their networks using a new solution provided by IBM (NYSE: IBM) and NEC Corporation of America (NEC). These leading organizations are deploying the IBM and NEC standards-based OpenFlow solution to power dynamic networks, manage massive amounts of information and deliver new services. More
Stevenson University Improves Student Service, Back-Office Efficiency with NEC January 10, 2012 NEC Corporation of America (NEC), a leading provider and integrator of advanced communications, IT and biometrics solutions, today announced Stevenson University, the third-largest independent undergraduate university in Maryland, has deployed Unified Communications (UC) for Enterprise (UCE) and the UNIVERGE® SV8500 voice server platform to help improve student services and interdepartmental communications. More
NEC adds 10/40GbE OpenFlow Switch to award-winning ProgrammableFlow Product Line December 13, 2011 NEC Corporation of America (NEC), a leading provider and integrator of advanced IT, networking and biometric solutions, today announced the UNIVERGE® ProgrammableFlow PF5820 10/40 Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) OpenFlow switch. The new PF5820 provides a high throughput, low latency and energy-efficient hardware design that delivers 1.28 Terabits of switching performance designed for building high-performance, secure and programmable networks. More
Tift Regional Medical Center Notes Improvements to Patient and Physician Satisfaction with NEC December 7, 2011 Tift Regional Medical Center (TRMC), a not-for-profit, regional hospital serving 12 counties in South Central Georgia, is using NEC's UNIVERGE® SV8000 Series Communications Servers, mobility and contact center solutions to improve patient and interdepartmental communications. More
NEC SAN Storage Helps Customer Improve Performance and Scale as it Grows November 30, 2011 NEC Corporation of America (NEC), a leading provider and integrator of advanced communication and IT solutions, announced its NEC D-Series SAN Storage has enabled Storage Guardian to keep up with unparalleled growth of data and increasing customer demands. Using NEC's D-series SAN storage in Storage Guardian's online and cloud backup solutions for small and medium-sized businesses has allowed performance to increase as it scaled to 100 TB from 20 TB in the past year. More
NEC Demos OpenFlow at Supercomputing 2011 November 15, 2011 NEC Corporation of America (NEC) announces its ProgrammableFlow network virtualization technology is demoing in booth 2543 (RAID, Inc.) at Supercomputing 2011 (SC11), November 14-17, 2011 at the Washington State Convention Center in Seattle, WA. More
NEC Launches ML440 Handset for Small to Mid-sized Businesses November 1, 2011 NEC Corporation of America (NEC) today announced the availability of the ML440 Multi-line Wireless Handset for the UNIVERGE SV8100 communications server, designed specifically to meet the needs of small to mid-sized businesses. The first ML440 deployment was part of a recent system upgrade that allowed for increased employee productivity and enhanced customer service. More
NEC Certified as Cisco TelePresence Video Advanced Authorized Technology Provider in the U.S. October 27, 2011 NEC Corporation of America (NEC), a leading provider and integrator of advanced communication and IT solutions, announced today that it has met all Authorized Technology Provider (ATP) program requirements and criteria necessary to earn the designation of Cisco® ATP - Cisco TelePresence Video Advanced Partner in the United States. More
NEC and EnabledWare introduce cutting edge blended media learning solutions at EDUCAUSE 2011 October 18, 2011 Today, NEC and EnabledWare announced that they are jointly showcasing exciting new blended learning solutions at booth 1027 at EDUCAUSE 2011 in Philadelphia, PA. More
NEC Showcases Education Solutions to Help Higher Education Unlock Potential at EDUCAUSE 2011 October 18, 2011 NEC Corporation of America (NEC) this week is showcasing new solutions for higher education at EDUCAUSE 2011 in Philadelphia. These new solutions integrate off-the-shelf products in customized, turn-key systems to manage energy consumption, security and provide video collaboration. More
NEC Demonstrates Cost-Reducing Healthcare Solutions for Improved Workflow and Patient Care at Gartner Symposium/ITxpo 2011 October 17, 2011 NEC Corporation of America (NEC) today announced it will showcase five healthcare-focused, integrated IT and communications solutions that can help improve workflow efficiencies, reduce energy consumption and streamline communication during this year's Gartner Symposium/ITxpo 2011 in Orlando, Fla. NEC is serving as a Marketplace Sponsor and will be co-presenting with Virtua Health on its state-of-the-art Access Center, which features NEC solutions. More
NEC Launches M100 Storage System for Windows, Linux and VMware Environments October 11, 2011 NEC Corporation of America (NEC), a leading provider and integrator of advanced communication and IT solutions, today launched the next generation of storage architecture, the M100 storage area networking (SAN) system. The M100 provides highly available and easily scalable storage that does not compromise performance or flexibility. More
NEC Delivers Faster Enterprise-Grade Storage for SME Market and New High-Throughput Protocol for the Enterprise October 10, 2011 NEC Corporation of America (NEC), a leading provider and integrator of advanced communication and IT solutions, has upgraded its HYDRAstor HS3 (mini-HYDRA) to deliver 60 percent higher throughput with 45 percent lower power usage compared to the previous mini-HYDRA generation. More
NEC Servers Bring Powerful Product Information Databases to Customers' Fingertips October 10, 2011 NEC Corporation of America (NEC) today announced that Edgenet has deployed the NEC Express5800/A1080a-D high-availability server to address the growing demand for its product information portal, Ezeedata. More
EMC and NEC Set High-End Scalability Record October 4, 2011 Today at the Microsoft SharePoint Conference 2011, EMC Corporation (NYSE: EMC) and NEC Corporation of America (NEC), a leading provider and integrator of advanced communications, networking and IT solutions, announced a storage and server configuration solution for Microsoft SharePoint 2010 that includes EMC® VNX® unified storage and NEC Express Server configuration-powered by Intel® Xeon® E7 processor family. More
NEC ProgrammableFlow First OpenFlow Solution Compatible with Windows Operating Systems September 22, 2011 EC Corporation of America (NEC), a leading provider and integrator of advanced communication and IT solutions, today unveiled ProgrammableFlow, NEC's OpenFlow-based network fabric, which works with Windows-based virtualized environments. ProgrammableFlow's vPFS Virtual Switch for Windows Server "8" will give Windows Server customers a new option for building large, flat networks that streamline the management of datacenter networks through greater levels of automation while driving down operational costs and time to deliver business services. More
NEC Debuts Software-Based Unified Communications Bundle for Mid-Market September 20, 2011 NEC Corporation of America (NEC), a leading provider and integrator of advanced communication and IT solutions, today announced the general availability of UNIVERGE® Sphericall® for Medium Businesses and Small Enterprises (MB/SE), a full-featured, enterprise class unified communications solutions for the mid-market. More
NEC Fault Tolerant Servers Now Support VMware® vSphere™ with Six-Core Intel® Xeon® Processor August 29, 2011 NEC Corporation of America (NEC), a leading provider and integrator of advanced communications, networking and IT solutions, today announced that its NEC Express5800/R320b fault-tolerant servers, which are powered by the six-core Intel® Xeon® processor 5600 series, now support VMware® vSphere™ for virtualization. More
NEC Offers Zero-Percent Financing for Select Servers, Storage and OpenFlow Networking August 3, 2011 NEC Financial Services, LLC, a firm dedicated to providing tailored financing and leasing services to customers throughout the United States, announces the availability of a 36-month zero percent true lease promotion subject to offer terms and conditions* for NEC Express5800 Series Servers, D-Series and HYDRAstor Storage and ProgrammableFlow network solutions. More
NEC UNIVERGE® SV8000 Series Communications Servers get Skype Connect Certified July 25, 2011 NEC Corporation of America (NEC), a leading provider and integrator of advanced communication and IT solutions, today announced it has certified its UNIVERGE SV8000 Series Communications Servers with Skype Connect, a business solution that can enable companies to save on monthly communications costs and connect employees with the global Skype community. More
ESnet & NEC Demo OSCARS and OpenFlow for End-to-End Network Virtualization at Summer 2011 ESCC/Internet2 Joint Techs July 13, 2011 ESnet's Inder Monga and Dr. Samrat Ganguly of NEC Corporation of America (NEC) showed powerful and elegant new techniques for laboratories, universities, and industry to integrate end-to-end network virtualization across both the local area network (LAN) and wide area network (WAN) at the Summer 2011 ESCC/Internet2 Joint Techs conference. More
NEC Achieves Three Cisco Masters Certifications in the U.S. July 11, 2011 NEC Corporation of America (NEC) announced today that it has achieved the Cisco® Master Security, Master Managed Services and the Master Unified Communications Specializations. These certifications recognize NEC for its proven expertise and ability to design and integrate network solutions based on Cisco's product portfolio, resulting in closer relationships and desired results for customers. More
NEC Releases ExpressCluster X R3 Software for Faster High Availability and Disaster Recovery June 29, 2011 NEC Corporation of America (NEC), a leading provider and integrator of advanced communication and IT solutions, today announced the release of its next generation high availability and disaster recovery software solution, the NEC ExpressCluster X R3. The ExpressCluster software minimizes down time during planned and unplanned system outages and increases application and data availability supporting a wide range of deployment environments including virtualized and non-virtualized systems in traditional enterprise data centers and emerging cloud infrastructure. More
NEC communication-as-a-service now available for your cloud June 27, 2011 NEC Corporation (NEC; TSE:6701) announced today the immediate availability of UNIVERGE Sphericall as a VMware software-based virtual appliance, enabling organizations to directly implement communication-as-a service delivery models as part of their private or hybrid clouds. More
NEC Participates in Smart City Development in Brazil June 13, 2011 NEC Corporation (TSE: 6701) announced today that its Latin America Regional Headquarters, NEC Latin America S.A., is participating in the development of Brazil's first "smart city" project in cooperation with Arena Pernambuco Consortium, a subsidiary of Odebrecht Group, a Brazilian multinational that operates in the engineering and construction, petrochemical, energy, bioenergy, oil and gas, real estate and environmental engineering sectors. The consortium is in charge of managing the new multipurpose arena and also of promoting an urban development in the metropolitan area of the capital city of Pernambuco State, Recife. More
NEC Offers Zero Percent Financing for UNIVERGE® SV8000 Series Systems June 13, 2011 NEC Financial Services, LLC, a firm dedicated to providing tailored financing and leasing services to customers throughout the United States, announces the availability of both a 48- and 60-month zero percent true lease promotion subject to offer terms and conditions* for NEC UNIVERGE® SV8000 Series communication systems installed by authorized NEC Corporation of America dealers. More
NEC Receives Unified Communications® Magazine's 2010 Product of the Year Award June 10, 2011 NEC Corporation of America (NEC) announced today that TMC, a global, integrated media company, has named InUCB as a recipient of its 2010 Unified Communications magazine Product of the Year Award. More